About the charity

Together with Migrant Children was founded in 2016, becoming a charity in 2017. Founded by children’s specialists, we aimed to provide support to children, young people and their families impacted by migration and the immigration system, with a focus on children’s needs, feelings and wishes and the way they experience migration and the immigration system. 

The project moved beyond what any of us could have expected and we now provide a range of support to children, young people and their families. We now offer a nationwide service, although a lot of our work is focused in London and the South East of England.

About our practitioners and service

Our practitioners are children’s practitioners first and foremost, coming from backgrounds in children’s Social Care, Early Help, education and other child focused settings. We then work with other services and charities, who provide other specialist services like immigration advice. Our founding practice team met in the refugee camps in France whilst working out there and on return, we all felt like more should be done right here in the UK.  

Our aims

At Together with Migrant Children we aim to provide high quality advice and support to children, young people and their families through the provision of advice, casework and family support services. Using the experiences through our services, we aim to work towards long, term structual change, through promoting the voices and lived experience of children and young people in migration.

Champion children's rights

We will advocate with children, young people and their families who have been harmed as a result of their immigration or migration status. We will work with other organisations to change policy and the situation facing migrant children. Our work will be informed by children's rights using the UNCRC as a starting point.

Improve support

We aim to improve the support received by migrant children and young people and develop practice that supports and empowers them overcome these harms. We also aim to champion better practice with families through collaborations and contribution to advisory groups and research and the provision of training and advice.

Model best practice

We aim to work holistically and bring together children's practitioners from different disciplines alongside people with lived experience to work together in the best interests of children and young people. We will use different approaches to create wrap-around, intensive support and share this with more practitioners.

Provide opportunities and safe spaces

We aim to provide social and educational opportunities for children and young people through activity programmes and group work that is both fun and focused on building children's awareness of their rights. We also aim to create safe group spaces for parents to develop activism and peer support.
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Partnerships

We have partnerships with the following organisations. 

Equal Start Oxford – We have a longstanding partnership together for more complex casework. Equal Start works with mothers throughout their pregnancy and the first 1000 days of a child’s life in Oxford.

Refugees at Home – Where we provide support and assistance where host placements involvement younger people, care leavers, age disputes and when families with children are referred to hosting. 

Young Lives vs Cancer – We have a signposting and referral partnership with them, providing specialist advice where a child has a diagnosis of cancer and issues related to migration. This currently runs in London, and some of the South East (Oxfordshire and Berkshire). 

The charity stuff...

We are registered with the Charities Commission for England and Wales. Our registration number is 1173265. We have a management committee who oversee the charity, and a lived experience group who contribute to practice and charity development. The board and practice team holds and regularly reviews policy and procedure to ensure we are compliant. We have robust safeguarding, complaints and data privacy policies in place to protect the children, young people and families we work with.

Information Commissioners Office: Our registration is ZA328473. 

Our insurers are Markel.